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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."
"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."
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"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."
"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."
"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."
"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."
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